First Principles

First Principles – First Law

Written by: M.G. Rhoads
2020-12-01 ·

You’ve got a great idea for a new product. You’ve sketched out designs. You’ve talked to potential customers and people are SUPER excited about buying it. All that’s left is to make it, right? Not so fast. If you read our recent series on design thinking you … [Read more...] about First Principles – First Law

You don’t care about experiments. You’re a maker (or inventor, creator, entrepreneur, or however you describe yourself.) If you wanted to be a lab scientist, you’d be one. You just want to make high-quality products and sell them to your delighted customers while making a good profit. Yes that’s fair. Not everyone finds experiments fun […]

If you’ve been following along, you know that there are some things called First Principles. These are laws of nature, just like the familiar law of gravity, but they govern the way that heat and other forms of energy work in our universe. If you’ve been following along you also know that Gary has been […]

You’re excited about your idea for a new product! Now you want to run it through some quick screens to make sure it’s at least not violating any First Principles before you move on to the Prototyping and Testing phases. Don’t know what any of these things are? You might want to read about Design […]